6/5/2023 0 Comments Observer system redux robots![]() ![]() To do so, we suggest, robots could be engineered to exploit the same type of control laws that plants exploit. ![]() A plant-inspired ecological robot is a robot that can tune to the structure that the surrounding energy media provides. In particular, we explain how successful movement requires an organism (and a robot) to be informed by the very environment as to where to go about. In what follows, we highlight a role for ecological psychology in both plant science and plant-based robotics. It is rather the grasping and climbing behaviors, the way in which the approaching maneuvers may be controlled, and not their attachment mechanisms or their smart biomimesis. Put bluntly, it is not the synthetic gadgets themselves that we are after here. But plant bio-inspiration doesn't reduce to transferring biomimetic successes from the animal to the plant kingdom, either in systems and synthetic biology or in molecular and cell biology. For one thing, innovations along the aforementioned lines resort to pulling out the same bag of tricks that animal researchers have exploited in the past (e.g., materials, morphologies, adhesive nanoproperties, and other biochemical mechanisms), if only rehearsed with plants rather than animal models. Much plant-inspiration remains to be discovered ( Vidoni et al., 2015 Wahby et al., 2018) beyond “copying innovations” ( Burris et al., 2018). Others have taken inspiration from plant nanoparticles and adhesives ( Burris et al., 2018). Elaborate “plantoid” robots come equipped with tree-like branches, leaves, and sensorized, bendable roots, which emulate to some degree the distributed foraging exhibited by plants ( Sadeghi et al., 2017). Plants have inspired advances in the material sciences ( Mazzolai et al., 2010 Szyndler et al., 2013 Guo et al., 2015 Lucarotti et al., 2015 Voigt et al., 2015) and novel forms of movement based on regeneration, accretion, and eversion ( Sadeghi et al., 2014, 2017 Sadeghi et al., 2014, Sadeghi et al., 2017, Greer et al., 2019 Putzu et al., 2018). In this effort, we will outline several control laws and give special consideration to the class of control laws identified by tau theory, such as time to contact.īioinspired robotics and artificial intelligence has taken various forms, including genetic algorithms, artificial life, and evolutionary robotics ( Langton, 1986 Mitchell, 1996 Doncieux et al., 2015) behavior-based and situated robotics ( Steels et al., 1995 Arkin, 1998) swarm robotics ( Romanishin et al., 2013) morphological computation and soft robotics ( Paul, 2006 Pfeifer et al., 2014 Laschi et al., 2016), and others ( Calvo and Gomila, 2008). We argue that ecological psychology's conception of “information” and “control” can simultaneously make sense of what it means for a plant to navigate its environment and provide a control scheme for the design of ecological plant-inspired robotics. Bio-inspired robotics sometimes emulates plants' growth-based movement but growing is part of a broader system of movement guidance and control. Plants are movers, but the nature of their movement differs dramatically from that of creatures that move their whole body from point A to point B. 3Centre for Advanced Robotics Queen Mary (ARQ), School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom. ![]() 2Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States.1MINTLab - Minimal Intelligence Lab, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain.Adrian Frazier 1,2, Lorenzo Jamone 3, Kaspar Althoefer 3 and Paco Calvo 1 * ![]()
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